Mayo, mayo (Mother, mother)
- William Siwale and 3 friends, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Siwale and 3 friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Banroft f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135116 , vital:37238 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-06
- Description: "Mothers, mothers, harvest your crops." Topical song with guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: William Siwale and 3 friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Banroft f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135116 , vital:37238 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-06
- Description: "Mothers, mothers, harvest your crops." Topical song with guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Enguli
- William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171022 , vital:42010 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-04
- Description: Performers such as these on the lute and lyres are in great demand in Uganda where they still fulfill an important function as dispensers of news and opinions. Most important matters of public concern will find their way into such songs and thus help crystalise public opinion. The efficient musician and composer is thus an integral part of the social scheme in Uganda. Drinking song with Endongo lyre (Bowl lyre), 2 Ndingidi lutes (bow stringed instrument) (-10.54-), 1 large conical laced drum (-14.22301-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171022 , vital:42010 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-04
- Description: Performers such as these on the lute and lyres are in great demand in Uganda where they still fulfill an important function as dispensers of news and opinions. Most important matters of public concern will find their way into such songs and thus help crystalise public opinion. The efficient musician and composer is thus an integral part of the social scheme in Uganda. Drinking song with Endongo lyre (Bowl lyre), 2 Ndingidi lutes (bow stringed instrument) (-10.54-), 1 large conical laced drum (-14.22301-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Abavuga obugali
- William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171013 , vital:42008 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-03
- Description: In this song to the twittering accompaniment of lutes and lyres the Ganda singers retail to their considerable audiences the events of the day, its humour and tragedies, its scandals and protestations. Topical song, with Endongo lyre, 2 Ndingidi lutes and large conical, laced, headed drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171013 , vital:42008 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-03
- Description: In this song to the twittering accompaniment of lutes and lyres the Ganda singers retail to their considerable audiences the events of the day, its humour and tragedies, its scandals and protestations. Topical song, with Endongo lyre, 2 Ndingidi lutes and large conical, laced, headed drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Osibye otyano
- William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171004 , vital:42007 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-02
- Description: The singers of these popular Ganda songs are so greatly in demand and sing for such long hours at a time that hardly one of them has any quality left in his voice except a croak. The harsh quality of the voices is a typical characteristic of such songs. The quality of the drum playing can be distinctly heard at the end of the recording. Topical song, with Endongo lyre, 2 Ndingidi lutes and large conical, laced, headed drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171004 , vital:42007 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-02
- Description: The singers of these popular Ganda songs are so greatly in demand and sing for such long hours at a time that hardly one of them has any quality left in his voice except a croak. The harsh quality of the voices is a typical characteristic of such songs. The quality of the drum playing can be distinctly heard at the end of the recording. Topical song, with Endongo lyre, 2 Ndingidi lutes and large conical, laced, headed drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Weyagale
- William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170995 , vital:42005 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-01
- Description: The lyre starts the item with the two lutes following and the drummer adding his hand beats before they begin to sing. The song follows a well understood local formula, the chantyman retailing items of local import to a refrain in the background by his companions. Topical song, with Endongo lyre, 2 Ndingidi lutes and large conical, laced, headed drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170995 , vital:42005 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-01
- Description: The lyre starts the item with the two lutes following and the drummer adding his hand beats before they begin to sing. The song follows a well understood local formula, the chantyman retailing items of local import to a refrain in the background by his companions. Topical song, with Endongo lyre, 2 Ndingidi lutes and large conical, laced, headed drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Weufwaya muchinshi She who would be respected)
- William Mapulanga and Friends, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Mapulanga and Friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Ruund
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139895 , vital:37804 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-03
- Description: "If all women had manners like the Nyayusa women, who kneel and clap their hands when they meet a man, the world would be much improved." "She who would be respected should follow the exampleof the Nyakyusa women." Topical song with guitar, rattle and bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: William Mapulanga and Friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Ruund
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139895 , vital:37804 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-03
- Description: "If all women had manners like the Nyayusa women, who kneel and clap their hands when they meet a man, the world would be much improved." "She who would be respected should follow the exampleof the Nyakyusa women." Topical song with guitar, rattle and bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bachituta panchi (The defeated one)
- William Mapulanga and Friends, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Mapulanga and Friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Ruund
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139886 , vital:37803 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR052-02
- Description: "The loser in a fight is always laughed at.' Topical song with guitar, rattle and bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: William Mapulanga and Friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Ruund
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139886 , vital:37803 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR052-02
- Description: "The loser in a fight is always laughed at.' Topical song with guitar, rattle and bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mukashi wamunobe (Do not play about with your friend's wife)
- William Mapulanga and Friends, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Mapulanga and Friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Ruund
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139915 , vital:37812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-04
- Description: The cross rhythm of this song is typical, while the melodic formula of the lyric is one which has come up to N. Rhodesia from the south where it originated eight years ago in a song called "Vura matambo." from the Muzezuru tribe in S. Rhodesia. This demonstrates the persistence of the oral folk evolution of songs, now accelerated and more widely distributed by means of phonograhic recording. In the ordinary course of events, this tune would never have moved so far from its original home some 600 and 700 miles away. Morality song with guitar and bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: William Mapulanga and Friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Ruund
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139915 , vital:37812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-04
- Description: The cross rhythm of this song is typical, while the melodic formula of the lyric is one which has come up to N. Rhodesia from the south where it originated eight years ago in a song called "Vura matambo." from the Muzezuru tribe in S. Rhodesia. This demonstrates the persistence of the oral folk evolution of songs, now accelerated and more widely distributed by means of phonograhic recording. In the ordinary course of events, this tune would never have moved so far from its original home some 600 and 700 miles away. Morality song with guitar and bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kayuni ngwata
- Widisoni Mazuku, Tumbuka men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185548 , vital:44398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-19
- Description: This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells below the knee and above the ankle. Vimbuza dance song with 2 Goblet Mpanje drums and Mangwanda bells
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185548 , vital:44398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-19
- Description: This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells below the knee and above the ankle. Vimbuza dance song with 2 Goblet Mpanje drums and Mangwanda bells
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nkhopa lero
- Widisoni Mazuku, Tumbuka men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185543 , vital:44396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-18
- Description: This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells below the knee and above the ankle. Vimbuza dance song with 2 Goblet Mpanje drums and Mangwanda bells
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185543 , vital:44396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-18
- Description: This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells below the knee and above the ankle. Vimbuza dance song with 2 Goblet Mpanje drums and Mangwanda bells
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kalulu wakawa na nyina wakhe
- Widisoni Mazuku, Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186273 , vital:44480 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-06
- Description: There was once a rabbit who liked dancing but used to come home late at night. His mother taught him a special song to sing so that she would know who it was and let him in. A hyena heard the rabbit singing his song and made a plan to eat up his mother. First he was unsuccessful, but later on he succeeded. The mother opened the door and he ate her up. When the rabbit came home he could hear it was not his mother who replied and he killed the hyena with his axe. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186273 , vital:44480 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-06
- Description: There was once a rabbit who liked dancing but used to come home late at night. His mother taught him a special song to sing so that she would know who it was and let him in. A hyena heard the rabbit singing his song and made a plan to eat up his mother. First he was unsuccessful, but later on he succeeded. The mother opened the door and he ate her up. When the rabbit came home he could hear it was not his mother who replied and he killed the hyena with his axe. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nipande mpola baskeli
- Wibingile Kabaza, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Wibingile Kabaza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172709 , vital:42273 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-06
- Description: "I will ride the bicycle carefully because I am tired." The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Wibingile Kabaza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172709 , vital:42273 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-06
- Description: "I will ride the bicycle carefully because I am tired." The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ilikazi lyayango bulo
- Wibingile Kabaza, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Wibingile Kabaza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172704 , vital:42272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-05
- Description: "The woman refuses food, but the child wants to eat some maize." The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Wibingile Kabaza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172704 , vital:42272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-05
- Description: "The woman refuses food, but the child wants to eat some maize." The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nalilimelwa wa ng’wa kayemba
- Welelo Sucha with Sukuma men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Welelo Sucha with Sukuma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173522 , vital:42380 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-11
- Description: "I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the Serengeti plains to the east. Last year, 1949, the Masai raided the Sukuma and took over one thousand head of cattle from them. The Puba dance is done in teams. The girls in two lines and the boys in two lines behind them. They move to and fro in file and leap into the air in time with the rhythm of the dance music. Puba dance song for men and women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Welelo Sucha with Sukuma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173522 , vital:42380 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-11
- Description: "I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the Serengeti plains to the east. Last year, 1949, the Masai raided the Sukuma and took over one thousand head of cattle from them. The Puba dance is done in teams. The girls in two lines and the boys in two lines behind them. They move to and fro in file and leap into the air in time with the rhythm of the dance music. Puba dance song for men and women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mwana angu ngale (My child Ngale)
- Waziya Bilaimo and Nyundo Katona, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Waziya Bilaimo and Nyundo Katona , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chiwambo Village, Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154702 , vital:39766 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-04
- Description: A verse used in a Mohammedon initiation ceremony at the time of circumcision, as used mostly by the Yao element. Although several Yao claim to speak a kind of Swhaili few understand it and repeat religious chants parrot-wise. When asked what the verse meant the singer replied, "You must not ask me, ask the Fundi (teacher). Mohammedon Initiation.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Waziya Bilaimo and Nyundo Katona , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chiwambo Village, Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154702 , vital:39766 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-04
- Description: A verse used in a Mohammedon initiation ceremony at the time of circumcision, as used mostly by the Yao element. Although several Yao claim to speak a kind of Swhaili few understand it and repeat religious chants parrot-wise. When asked what the verse meant the singer replied, "You must not ask me, ask the Fundi (teacher). Mohammedon Initiation.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nak’umiza umukhana aloba
- Authors: Watoya Sizangi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169466 , vital:41753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-07
- Description: This song refers to that rare African phenomena, a girl who did not want to marry in spite of many offers. Topical song, with Siilili two string lute and Kengele bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Watoya Sizangi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169466 , vital:41753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-07
- Description: This song refers to that rare African phenomena, a girl who did not want to marry in spite of many offers. Topical song, with Siilili two string lute and Kengele bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wabomba baseza ni Mahero
- Authors: Watoya Sizangi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169475 , vital:41754 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-08
- Description: This song refers to a man who planned to steal cattle from another called Mahero and succeeded. What transpired after the theft is not mentioned. Topical song, with Siilili two string lute and Kengele bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Watoya Sizangi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169475 , vital:41754 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-08
- Description: This song refers to a man who planned to steal cattle from another called Mahero and succeeded. What transpired after the theft is not mentioned. Topical song, with Siilili two string lute and Kengele bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Swaluu-Alah manyaana bilbay yinatil
- Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179496 , vital:43071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-13
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179496 , vital:43071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-13
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Swaluu-Alah maachini-l-imaan II
- Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179491 , vital:43070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-12
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179491 , vital:43070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-12
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Swaluu-Alah maachini-l-imaan I
- Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179478 , vital:43069 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-11
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179478 , vital:43069 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-11
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950